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Did Separating Openreach from British Telecom Benefit Consumers?
Sidak, J. Gregory - 2014
In 2005, Ofcom, then telecommunications regulator in the United Kingdom, implemented functional separation of British Telecom plc (BT), separating its wholesale and retail services. BT established a division within the company, Openreach, to provide equal access to its local access network and...
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Third Party Access and Refusal to Deal : How Sector Regulation and Competition Law Meet Each Other
Diathesopoulos, Michael D. - 2010
sector regulation and objectives as a context within the process of implementation of competition law in the energy sector … and third, we will investigate how sector regulation in energy sector incorporates competition law principles and affirms … combined with the need for effectiveness and focus on other than competition objectives of sector regulation and we will result …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134857
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Mobile Call Termination
Armstrong, Mark - 2014
, in which regulation has been imposed on what appears to be a competitive industry. We introduce a framework which … the efficient and the monopoly benchmarks. There remains a rationale for regulation, albeit reduced relative to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012709299
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Natural or Unnatural Monopolies in UK Telecommunications?
Correa, Lisa - 2003
This paper analyses whether scale economies exists in the UK telecommunications industry. The approach employed differs from other UK studies in that panel data for a range of companies is used. This increases the number of observations and thus allows potentially for more robust tests for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014075200
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Public Utility and the Low Carbon Future
Boyd, William - 2014
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Company Law, Lawyers and 'Legal' Innovation : Common Law versus Civil Law
Reyes, Francisco; Vermeulen, Erik P. M. - 2012
In this essay we make two major claims. The first is that public legislatures should think seriously about giving maximum effect to the principle of freedom of contract in company law. This would not only give corporate lawyers the tool they need to provide legal services that match the needs of...
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Investment in broadband infrastructure under local deregulation : evidence from the UK broadband market
Fabritz, Nadine; Falck, Oliver - 2013
This paper investigates telecommunication operator investment in broadband infrastructure after local deregulation of the wholesale broadband access market. Using a panel dataset covering all 5,598 exchange areas in the United Kingdom, we exploit regional differences in deregulation following a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752995
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Cross-border electricity interconnectors in the EU : the status quo
Brunekreeft, Gert; Meyer, Roland - 2018
policy debate on interconnector expansion and studies two particular points. First, the effects of network regulation on the …
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Broadband in Parliaments : The Regulatory State & Technological Change
Sutherland, Ewan - 2018
This paper compares and contrasts the processes used by the European, United Kingdom and Scottish parliaments in considering broadband policies, legislation, regulatory systems and outcomes, within a complex triple-tiered governance system. Broadband is of increasing importance due to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935909
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Economic Evidence in Regulatory Disputes : Revisiting the Court-Regulatory Agency Relationship in the US and the UK
Mantzari, Despoina - 2018
This article examines the issue of the appropriate scope of review of economic evidence enshrined in the discretionary assessments of utility regulators in the US and the UK. It advances a balance of institutional competencies approach to the question of the degree of deference owed to the...
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